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    In Las Vegas, the casino is always watching — and yet it missed Stephen Paddock

    by Matt Pearce, Jaweed Kaleem, Melissa Etehad and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2017 6 minutes

    LAS VEGAS - The casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, with all their glitzy delights, aren't just palaces of distraction. They're miniature surveillance states.

    A typical facility might be armed with thousands of cameras, which watch gamblers as they enter, while they play and when they leave. The footage is stored as potential evidence and monitored by internal security forces who are prepared to dispatch a response within moments in case of problems.

    "In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else," Robert De Niro said in the 1995 drama "Casino." Dealers watch the players, pit bosses watch the people watching the dealers, and the "eye in the sky" - the camera - watches over all.

    The thought of beating that eye in the sky has inspired a generation of glam heist movies, starting with "Ocean's 11."

    But now, questions are mounting over a very different type of crime than the grifting and grabbing scams Vegas has always been obsessed with - the mass shooting mounted

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